Recycling
is an important issue to all manufacturers in all industry branches. Besides
the fact that this action is environmental friendly it also saves what is
important to all businesses, money.

Nokia
already uses as much recycled materials as it can and with great wisdom. By
producing smaller encasements in 2006, the Finns spared no more than 100
million euros mainly in transportation and materials. Today, Nokia says it
might take some time, maybe a few years, until mobile phones forged from
recycled materials can be available in markets.

The reason
for waiting is that there is a lack of accessibility to these recycled
materials for a large scale mobile phone production, but in the future Nokia
officials believe this topic will increase competitively.

“We
consider this to be a very competitive factor” said Markus Terho, Director of
Nokia’s Ecology Unit, but “it may take some years”.

Barcelona hosted a trade meeting in February
this year, where Nokia’s Executive Director Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo presente an
ecological phone. This product was created by using only recycled materials.

Of course,
huge corporations always think one step forward, that’s why they are huge, and
cannot ignore the fact that resources don’t last forever. Or at least this
would be nice to think, but in fact they run after profit which is of course
normally to any business. 2006 profits indicate that recycling is good for
business, so the Finns are smart and will invest in this environmental friendly
issue.